On the outside, Linda McBride faces with practicality the work she must complete to get 54 tall panels put up along the east brick wall of The Art Center on north Seventh Street. But her shoulders want to curve inward and sometimes they shake. On the inside, McBride is weary to tears. âMy wonderful aunt died last week,â she said, trying to control tears so she could continue to speak. âShe was 98 and three quarters ⦠she was like a second mother.â Merrily Wallech âwas a starâ both on the theater stage and in peopleâs lives, McBride shared. Wallech is among the more than 302,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States as of Tuesday. Of those, 89 died in Mesa County.